We saw a fully operational Nehalem PC today at Computex. Nehalem, for those not in the know, is Intel's successor processor architecture to its current Penryn CPUs which will be a radical change from previous designs. The Nehalem architecture has an integrated memory controller - a design concept first introduced by AMD in the Opteron and Athlon 64 to great effect.

According to the article, Intel had actually overclocked the CPU for demonstrative purposes. Hopefully this should eradicate any fears that fellow OCN members might have regarding Nehalem's overclockability.

Intel showed us a octo-core, overclocked Nehalem PC. While facts and figures were in short supply, it appeared to be very quick.

It's not eight cores, it's four cores with SMT..

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although Intel did let slip that we'll hear more about the SSD line-up in a few weeks.

Man, Computex itself is quite boring. Just a load of low-power-consumption green fad products and mini laptops with Atoms in them.. All the interesting stuff is backstage and really not officially announced. Why not announce the SSDs now? Edited by bowman - 6/4/08 at 3:04am